can vision problems cause seizures
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- Yes, seizure can lead to eye problems including spots, flashing light or wavy lines in eyes and eye movement. Seizure often refers to convulsion from which people suffer may have rapid and uncontrollable body shakes. Seisure means an abnormal electrical activity which strike the brain at a certain area.
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What Causes Eye Stroke? Ischemic Optic Neuropathy. A blockage may occur in the arteries of the optic nerve, a type of stroke in the eye called ischemic optic neuropathy. A person may experience mild to complete loss of vision as a result.Many cases of ischemic optic neuropathy occur as a result of temporal arteritis, a condition that doctors treat with corticosteroids.etinal arteries deliver blood to the eye, and if one of these arteries has a blockage, the nourishing blood will not reach the retina. This blockage may cause a severe, sudden loss of vision. If the eye has complete vision loss, this may mean the blockage occurred in a retinal artery near the optic nerve.
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Can neuropathy affect your vision? Can neuropathy affect your vision? Patients report the symptom of burning and itching eyes, but there are many causes of these symptoms including allergies and some medications. It is always a good idea to have an eye doctor check out all symptoms involving the eyes. There are drops for dry eye and for allergic reactions that affect the eye. However, the answer to the question is, YES, neuropathy can affect the eyes. According to the website at E Medicine Health , there are two specific types of what is referred to as cranial neuropath and these are optic neuropathy and auditory neuropathy.
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Blurred vision and Shaking Benign essential tremor can cause shaking of the hands and forearms and a quivering voice. Diabetes, type 1. Diabetes can make you feel hungry, tired, or thirsty; you may urinate more than normal and have blurry vision. Astigmatism. Astigmatism is a common eye problem causing blurry vision, difficulty seeing details and eye strain headaches.
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Case ReportA case of headache, double vision and ptosis in emergency department: Tolosa-Hunt syndrome Headache and double vision are common symptoms in ED. In the differential diagnosis of these symptoms, problems affecting different systems, especially neurological and optical problems can be seen. 1,2 Among these, Tolosa-Hunt syndrome (THS), which is a rare disease, has been reported only as case series.
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- This problem affects the normal alignment of the eyes, and produces double vision. MRI scans can identify a pituitary tumor and show if it pushes the. optic nerve or optic chiasm. The normal pituitary gland sits beneath the optic chiasm (which. brings vision into the brain). The pituitary also lies between important. nerves that help the eyes move.
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How Do Strobe Lights Cause Seizures? The seizures are most likely caused by the frequency or speed of the flashing light. The timing and intensity differs from person to person. Flashing lights are considered harmful to people who have seizures if there is a frequency of five to 30 flashes per second.
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Drugs that Harm Vision 1 Antidepressants, which change how information is processed in the nerves in the brain. Any medication that affects neurological function can affect vision and cause changes in the cornea, optic nerve, lens, macula and retina.  Venlafaxine, prescribed for depression can lead to optic nerve damage and/or glaucoma.
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- Migraine headaches commonly cause people to see auras or halos and can cause kaleidoscope vision as well. Not everyone who experiences kaleidoscope vision or halos gets a migraine afterwards, reports Perret Opticiens.
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- Anyone can experience a visual disturbance at any time, but several conditions put you at an increased risk for one or more of the most common visual disturbances. These conditions include: 1  brain tumor. 2  cataracts. 3  diabetes. 4  glaucoma. 5  macular degeneration.
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Flickering lights in vision, Headache and Sudden flash of lights Chronic sinusitis, or sinus infections, cause a stuffy or runny nose, tooth pain, fever, sore throat and more. Migraines are a common type of headache that can cause severe pain, aura or flashes in vision, and tingling. Tension headaches, caused by muscle tension, are marked by pain, pressure and tightness around the head. Ocular migraine usually refers to a type of migraine that can cause temporary blindness in one eye.
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- Dizziness, Headache and Seizures (uncontrollable jerking of limbs). WebMD Symptom Checker helps you find the most common medical conditions indicated by the symptoms dizziness, headache and seizures (uncontrollable jerking of limbs) including Middle ear infection, Labyrinthitis, and Medication reaction or side-effect.
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Epilepsy (Seizure Disorder) 1 Sometimes severe seizure can cause brain damage, but most seizures do not seem to have a detrimental effect on the brain. 2  Epilepsy has many possible causes, from illness to brain damage to abnormal brain development.
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What Is Double Vision? Guillain-Barre syndrome is a nerve condition that causes progressive weakness. Sometimes, the first symptoms are in your eyes and include double vision. Diabetes can cause nerve damage to the muscles that move your eyes. That can lead to double vision. Brain: The nerves that control your eyes connect directly to your brain, where images are processed. Many causes of double vision start in the brain. They include: Strokes; Aneurysms
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- Vision disorders including visual impairment, photopsia (perceived flashes of light), vision blurred, vitreous floaters, photophobia (sensitivity to bright light), and diplopia (seeing double) were experienced in 159 (62%) patients in clinical trials.
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Learning-Related Vision Problems To determine if such a problem exists, see an eye doctor who specializes in children's vision and learning-related vision problems for a comprehensive evaluation. If no vision problem is detected, it's possible your child's symptoms are caused by a non-visual dysfunction, such as dyslexia or a learning disability.
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Traumatic Brain Injury and Visual Disorders: What Every Ophthalmologist Should Know Recommend Go to User Comments. Download PDF. Combat operations over the last decade in Iraq and Afghanistan have taught physicians many lessons about traumatic brain injury; one of the most salient to ophthalmologists is the recognition that even mild TBI (mTBI), also known as concussion, can cause visual problems.
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- Adults: A head injury, stroke, or tumor may damage the brain, causing a seizure. Alcohol withdrawal (caused by suddenly stopping drinking) is a common cause of seizures. However, in about half of people in this age group, the cause is unknown. Older adults: The cause may be a brain tumor or stroke.
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- Some ocular migraines cause temporary but complete vision loss in one eye. In other cases, ocular migraines can cause vision disturbances like: 1  Blurring. 2  Partial vision loss. 3  Scotomas, or blank spots in your vision. 4  Dimming.
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- 1 For about 3 percent of people with epilepsy, exposure to flashing lights at certain intensities or to certain visual patterns can trigger seizures.
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Blurred vision and Loss of side vision Blurred vision and Loss of side vision. WebMD Symptom Checker helps you find the most common medical conditions indicated by the symptoms blurred vision and loss of side vision including Transient ischemic attack (mini-stroke), Diabetes, type 2, and Glaucoma. There are 23 conditions associated with blurred vision and loss of side vision. The links below will provide you with more detailed information on these medical conditions from the WebMD Symptom Checker and help provide a better understanding of causes and treatment of these related conditions.
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How can optic neuritis affect my vision if I have multiple sclerosis (MS)? A Multiple Sclerosis Foundation answered. Optic neuritis, a common first sign of multiple sclerosis (MS), can cause blurry vision, blind spots, dimmed color and eye pain. A follow-up study of people with optic neuritis found that the majority of those examined 15 years later had 20/20 vision in the affected eye.
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can seizure affect eyesight, can astigmatism be inherrited from parents or relativesWinnie C. Gorme Aug 17, 2007 Astigmatsm is not a disease, it merely means the cornea is lopsighted (not round like a baseball but shaped like a football (American football). The seizure will not cause misalignment of the eye on a permanent basis BUT some of the things that cause seizures can cause misalignment (strabismus). First work with your pediatrician to find the cause of the seizures. Then make an appointment with an ophthalmologist of Eye Physician perhaps a pediatric ophthalmologist to do a baseline eye examination.
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Flickering lights in vision, Headache and Sudden flash of lights Ocular migraine usually refers to a type of migraine that can cause temporary blindness in one eye. Insulin reaction (hypoglycemia) An insulin reaction is the result of low blood sugar and causes anxiety, hunger, shaking, dizziness, and more.
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- Find a Great Eye Doctor Near You. In rare cases, blurred vision in one eye may indicate a disorder in the brain or central nervous system, such as a brain tumor that presses on one of the optic nerves.